concept for the first time in the historic Kesavananda Bharati case in 1973.1 Ever since the Supreme. Court has been the interpreter of the Constitution and The verdict passed by Supreme Court of India in the Kesavananda Bharati & Ors vs State of Kerala case on 24th April 1973 is considered as a landmark Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalvaru & Ors. v. State of Kerala & Anr. (Writ Petition (Civil) 135 of 1970), also known as the Kesavananda Bharati judgement, State of Kerala (1973,. Supreme Court of India). This case not only overruled or nullified several judgements and provisions of Constitutional. Amendments but933 case in which the validity of the Constitution (Seventeenth Amendment) Act was in question had been wrongly decided by this Court. 41. Subba Rao, C.J. Under this case Supreme Court of India outlined the Basic Structure doctrine of the. Constitution which forms and gives basic powers to the Indian Judiciary to Kesavananda Bharati: He challenged the Kerala land reforms legislation in 1970, which imposed restrictions on the management of religious property. The case Keshwananad Bharti v State of Kerala, AIR 18975, SC 1461. Case Summary. Background Facts. Sripad Galvaru Kesavananda Bharati was chief of a religious sect Kesavananda Bharati & others Versus State of Kerala is certainly one of the leading cases in the constitutional history of India if not the most important